About Snap Talent

About Snap Talent, the people behind the teams you build

The people behind the teams. A workforce partner that starts with the need, not the job description.

Our story

Built on one belief: understand the business first.

Snap Talent Co. began in 2018 with a conviction that most hiring starts in the wrong place. It starts with a job description, a list of skills and a title, when it should start with the need behind the role and the business it belongs to.

So we built the firm around a different first question. Not what does the role say, but what is the company actually trying to do. That one change, asked before any search begins, is why our shortlists are shorter, our searches move faster, and the people we place tend to stay.

We are a workforce partner, not a recruitment agency. We do not trade on client names, we do not send stacks of CVs, and we do not promise what we cannot measure. Every engagement ends on the same report card. Mandates delivered, time to fill, offers accepted.

Today a small, specialist team works with companies across the US, UK, EU and India, hiring deep in technology and life sciences and across the functions that hold a business together. Different roles, one belief. Understand the business before you build the team.

What we stand for

Four things we will not trade away.

01

The need comes first

We look past the job description to what the business is really solving for. The right hire is a business decision, not a keyword match.

02

Discretion is non-negotiable

We never trade on client names. Confidential searches stay confidential. That is exactly why leaders bring the sensitive roles to us.

03

Depth beats breadth

Hard to fill is where we do our best work. Regulatory, HEOR, GenAI, the specialist roles most firms struggle to reach.

04

We measure what we do

Every engagement ends on the report card. Mandates delivered, time to fill, offers accepted. Numbers, never adjectives.

The team

A small team of specialists, not a switchboard.

Real people who own their mandates end to end.

Himanshu Tyagi

Himanshu Tyagi

Founder

A decade of leadership search and workforce planning across technology, life sciences and consulting.

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Anoop Sharma

Anoop Sharma

Co-Founder & Client Partner

Founded Snap Talent in 2018. Leads CXO search and long-term client partnerships.

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Megha Tyagi

Megha Tyagi

Head of Talent Acquisition

Builds and scales hiring teams, with data-driven pipelines and a seamless candidate experience across geographies.

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Zainab Ansari

Zainab Ansari

Lead, Projects & Delivery

Runs large client mandates end to end across technology, life sciences and consulting, with delivery built on trust.

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How we work

Five steps, one principle: the need leads.

01

Understand the need

We start with a conversation about the business and what it is trying to do, not a brief and a list of must-haves.

02

Map the market

Quietly and precisely, including the specialists who are not looking and will never appear on a job board.

03

Calibrate and shortlist

Against what good really looks like for this business, so you get a shortlist you can act on, not a stack of CVs.

04

Manage to acceptance

Interviews, feedback and offer negotiation, handled through to a signed yes, with you close at every stage.

05

Set them up to stay

Background checks, assets and a considered welcome, so the hire you just made becomes someone who stays.

Case studies

Proof, in detail.

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UK-HQ global capability centre

A confidential Evidence Synthesis leader.

Need
A senior HEOR leader, in a scarce talent pool, hired without signalling to the market.
Approach
We mapped the specialists first, then approached quietly and selectively.
Outcome
Director of Evidence Synthesis placed and onboarded.
Timeline
8 weeks.
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Indian technology company

Standing up a product engineering team.

Need
A product engineering lead and the core team to build around them, at pace.
Approach
We ran the leadership hire and the team build in parallel from a pre-screened pool.
Outcome
Head of Product Engineering and full-stack team in place.
Timeline
3 to 5 weeks per hire.
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UK-HQ life sciences company

A hard-to-fill regulatory mandate.

Need
A Regulatory Affairs (CMC) director, a role most firms had struggled to fill.
Approach
Deep specialism mapping, then a targeted and discreet search.
Outcome
Director appointed, with a senior consultant added soon after.
Timeline
9 weeks.
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Let’s build together

Start with a conversation about the need.

No brief required. Bring us the problem you are trying to solve, and we will work out the team that solves it. Email is the fastest way to reach us.